Daily Archives: December 22, 2014

The latest “Scenes I Love” comes courtesy of An Officer and a Gentleman.

This ending sequence to the film has become an iconic scene when one talks about some of the best romantic scenes in film. The film itself was your modern take on the age-old two people from the wrong-sides of the track falling for each other.

The ending scene made the film memorable in the end. It helped that the song written and composed for the film, “Up Where We Belong,” and sung as a duet by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes became as big of a hit as the film itself.

You know that a scene has become a cultural mainstay when The Simpsons did a parody of it which ended up being just as memorable as the original.

Up Where We Belong

Who knows what tomorrow brings in a world few hearts surviveAll I know is the way I feel when it’s real I keep it alive the road is longThere are mountains in our waybut we climb the stairway every day

Love lifts us up where we belongwhere the eagles cry on a mountain highlove lifts us up where we belongfar from the world below up where the clear winds blow

Some hang on to used to be live their lives looking behindAll we have is here and now all our lives out there to find The road is long and there are moutains in our waybut we climb the stairway every day

Love lifts us up where we belongwhere the eagles cry on a mountain highlove lifts us up where we belongfar from the world we know where the clear wind blows

Time goes by no time cry life’s you and I alive

Love lifts us up where we belongwhere the eagles cry on a mountain highlove lifts us up where we belongfar from the world we know where the clear winds blow

Love lifts us up where we belongfar from the world we know where the clear winds blow

Love lifts us up where we belongwhere the eagles cry on a mountain high

A rock legend passed away today. Joe Cocker had one of those very unique voices which most everyone recognized. A blues and soul rock singer who performed with some of the rock legends of the 60’s and 70’s, he would become a mainstream hit with songs such as “Up Where We Belong” and his covers of Beatles songs.

It was in 1975, covering a ballad written and composed by Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher and Dennis Wilson that he truly burst into the mainstream scene. The song was “You Are So Beautiful” and while the album it was a part of never truly took off the single itself reached No. 5 on the Billboards chart of that year.

Cocker’s version was much slower in tempo than the original song and this worked well in concert with his gritty, bluesy voice where each word and lyric felt full of emotion that blues and soul singers have become well-known for.

Joe Cocker might have faded away from the mainstream consciousness after the 80’s but rock and blues aficionados always remembered and admired him right down to his last days.

Time for the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame to heed the words of Billy Joel and induct the man in it’s hallowed halls. He’s more than earned it.

You Are So Beautiful

You are so beautiful to meYou are so beautiful to meCan’t you seeYour everything I hoped forYour everything I needYou are so beautiful to me

Such joy and happiness you bringSuch joy and happiness you bringLike a dreamA guiding light that shines in the nightHeavens gift to meYou are so beautiful to me